Andrew Scutts

1 month ago | racingpost.com | Andrew Scutts

Tell us where, when and how it all started for you in terms of interest/involvement with equines? I was fortunate enough to grow up with ponies, so it has always been about horses for me. But my first memory of racing was the 2000 Grand National won by Papillon and Ruby Walsh. Every pony I rode after that, I pretended it was Papillon – I’ve been hooked ever since! And as for the world of work, where did your first break come from?

1 month ago | racingpost.com | Andrew Scutts

More than £3.3m in prize money will be available across 89 High Value Developmental Races for the 2025 Flat season in a further boost for the British racing and breeding industry. The programme of races, designed primarily for two- and three-year-old horses at the beginning of their careers, offer enhanced prize-money with the aim of supporting the domestic breeding industry and encouraging the purchase and racing of young talent in Britain.

1 month ago | racingpost.com | Andrew Scutts

Our resident bloodstock experts profile the well-bred eyecatchers and expensive purchases set to grace the track. HERON IN THE PARKOLBG Racing Club Mares' Open National Hunt Flat Race (4.50 Newbury, Saturday)What's the story? The closing mares’ bumper at Newbury on Saturday will get next to no coverage, however it contains a few of the most interesting horses running on the day, none more so than the Tom George-trained Heron In The Park.

1 month ago | racingpost.com | Andrew Scutts

Ivo Thomas of Tweenhills became the first person from the breeding side of the sport to win an award other than the stud staff prize at the Thoroughbred Industry Employee Awards, held at York racecourse on Monday night. Thomas, assistant stud manager at the Gloucestershire farm, made the final three in the leadership category, along with Mark Ellwood from Nick Alexander’s yard and Rachael Lytham, who works for Ollie Greenall and Josh Guierriero.

2 months ago | racingpost.com | Andrew Scutts

A wonderful weekend, even for a behemoth like Northern Farm, was capped by the victory of Costa Nova in Sunday’s Grade 1 February Stakes, a success all the more notable for it being the first at the top level on the Flat for a female jockey in Japan. Rachel King, 34, partnered the five-year-old Northern Farm homebred to a historic triumph at Tokyo,  the pair fending off Sunrise Zipangu by three-quarters of a length.